After the datacenters ruin all the water, we will need those stillsuits.

Fremen stillsuits have been in use for ages. This jacket is a copycat, but at least it means Frank Herbert has not been forgotten.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stillsuit

> That seems...problematic for anyone doing code reviews.

No, it's incentive to let LLMs do the reviews, supporting your tokenmaxxing efforts.

> who just do exactly what a ticket says and then go to the next without caring if the rest implodes behind them

But that's exactly what an LLM does, so by using it you're not improving anything.

If these things happen, they will be privacy nightmares, just as our cars are becoming.

I agree, in practice.

In theory, they could be made to strictly compartmentalize their "memories" and exercise some kind of robot-client privilege. There could even be built-in, task-appropriate data-retention limits and anonymization algorithms to reduce the risk of leaks.

But instead, we should assume they will be made to remember too much and to send abusive levels of reconnaissance and other telemetry back to their parent companies. Because anything less is "leaving money on the table" and that has become the greatest sin of all... :-(

As long as it's not vibe-coded.

If it doesn't happen already, politicians will mandate it. "We can't allow our enemies (foreign and domestic) to use our tools against us."

Seen from this perspective, the GDR was prescient: They had more than half of their population engaged in spying on all the rest. We can now take our cues from them an reshape our economies in their image.

> the GDR was prescient: They had more than half of their population engaged in spying on all the rest.

Wrong. It definitely wasn't 50%. This number seems to grow each time I see it referenced. The Stasi directly or indirectly employed about 2% of the population, which is still huge. But /The Lives of Others/ takes a lot of artistic license. The true levels will never be known, but the largest and most widely quoted figure is 1 in 6.5 or about 15%. That derives from one historian's estimate, which was that at the upper bound, 1 in 6.5 people had in some way made a report to the government that in some way made it to the Stasi. I'm sure 15% of the people in any developed country have called the police at some point in their life.

This is also assuming no duplicates, you really think the Stasi could uniquely identify and disambiguate informants at this scale? And that every Stasi low level officer tasked with recruiting new informants or else actually recruited new informants instead of making them up and keeping the payouts for themselves?

And because I have to say it: authoritarian surveillance is bad, the Stasi was bad, this is not an apology or minimization, but a correction of historical facts.

I use Dune only for my local libraries, because the install step fits perfectly. But my app projects all use a Makefile, including apps with a table-driven parser (Menhir), where the OCaml `.ml` source has to be generated first. You have to know `make` well enough to do that, but it's definitely possible.

I have been trying to read the original Dune "documentation", but it never told me how to do the stuff I needed to do. Finding pertinent information was based on pure luck, and even then it was tough as old chewing gum to find out "how do I do X?". The target audience is apparently limited to wizards who already perfectly understand Dune.

Maybe this introduction will finally do the trick.